a flourless chocolate cake
Posted: March 29, 2013 Filed under: Girl Talk | Tags: bake, cake, chocolate, chocolate cake, dessert, flourless, Food, gluten free 2 Comments »When I looked for flourless chocolate cake recipes, I found two that caught my eye. Since I couldn’t decide which one would be better, I broke down and made them both. Sorry I’m not sorry.
I made this cake earlier in the week. Last night, I made this recipe. They both use the same basic ingredients, but this one uses some fluffy egg whites, so it has a more spongy, light texture, with a thin, crispy outer layer. Who could say no to that?
making a cake, and eating it too
Posted: March 26, 2013 Filed under: Girl Talk | Tags: bake, cake, chocolate, chocolate torte, dessert, flourless, Food, gluten free, recipe, torte 1 Comment »One of my dear friends is celebrating Passover this week, and asked if I could make a chocolate torte. I have never made a chocolate torte, but I was excited to try! I was a little bit nervous about putting so many eggs, and no flour, into the batter (and I accidentally cracked the cake down the middle flipping it out of the pan). But it turned out really good! Kinda like a brownie cake!
It was eaten very quickly, so this was the only terrible picture I took of it. We ate ours cold, in really thin slices, with a little fresh whipped cream and strawberries.
And I imagine that if I would have taken food styling classes and made this in daylight, the picture would look something like this:
You can find the recipe here. Try it!
getting crazy in the kitchen
Posted: March 15, 2013 Filed under: Girl Talk | Tags: bake, chocolate, chocolate chip, chocolate chip cookies, cookie, dessert, Food, orange, orange zest, recipe Leave a comment »Everyone hold on to your hats, because I made something, and ADDED something to the recipe. I am turning into a baking rebel.
But for real, I know I am not a very adventurous baker. I usually stick to a recipe for the most part. I might use normal butter for unsalted butter, or light brown sugar for dark brown sugar, when I want to get crazy.
But I wanted to eat an orange, and I wanted to make cookies, so I decided to add some orange zest to these chocolate chip cookies. And they didn’t turn out to shabby. The zest added a nice freshness to it. Everyone at work seemed to eat them, so I would say that is success.
We ate ours split in half, with an orange split in half, and some tea.
chocolate orange cookies
Posted: February 21, 2013 Filed under: Girl Talk | Tags: bake, chocolate, cookie, dessert, Food, orange, sandwich cookie Leave a comment »The 21st day of February calls for cookies. A new kind of cookie. An experiment.
To satisfy this requirement, I present the chocolate orange cookie. Which is really like 10% chocolate, 5% orange, and the rest is butter and sugar. Tasty little buggers, plus fun to make. I made mine mini sized, because we want cookies, but let’s not go crazy here.
kiss the cook
Posted: January 29, 2013 Filed under: Girl Talk | Tags: bake, chocolate, cookie, dessert, Food, kiss, kisses, peanut butter, treat, valentine 2 Comments »I love Hershey’s Kisses. They are super tasty, adorable, and you can save the little kiss labels and sneak them into places. And obviously, the Valentine color ones are already at the store! We are getting close to the season of kissing, so I made some kiss cookies for the guy. Don’t worry, he kissed the cook too.
doughnuts for dessert
Posted: January 24, 2013 Filed under: Girl Talk | Tags: bake, breakfast, chocolate, coffee, dessert, donut, doughnut, Doughnut Hole, Food, treat, yummy 3 Comments »A couple days ago, I tried making these oatmeal cookie pie things. The cookie part of them turned out pretty awesome despite the weird ingredients, but I could not make the filling part work. I tried twice and used up all the milk. My guess is I didn’t beat the butter and sugar enough, but I whipped it up for like 10 minutes. I am still kinda bitter about it, but whatever.
But the universe made it up to me yesterday and gave me these doughnuts. My guy has been working awfully late this week, and I knew he would enjoy a baked espresso glazed doughnut. I switched it up a little bit, and made baked doughnut “holes” (aka I used a whoopie pie pan to make baby doughnuts). I also used gold sprinkles on top since I didn’t have any chocolate ones. The guy loved them, as did all the coworkers who enjoyed them this morning.
bake time: chewy chocolate cookies
Posted: December 14, 2012 Filed under: Girl Talk | Tags: Baking, chocolate, chocolate cookies, cookie, dessert, Food, peanut butter, peanut butter chips, yum Leave a comment »Sometimes, you just need a cookie. And then sometimes, you also need one at work the next day on a post-it plate.
These chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips are chewy and fudgey, and made me really popular at the office.
the great whoopie pie experiment
Posted: December 9, 2012 Filed under: Girl Talk | Tags: bake, chocolate, Christmas, cookie, dessert, eat, Food, gingerbread, holiday, oops, whoopie pie Leave a comment »I received some lovely whoopie pie pans for my birthday. I had super grand plans for some holiday whoopie pies. I wanted to make these chocolate ones, but rolled in gold sprinkles, and these gingerbread ones, with the crushed peppermints. In my head, they were going to be beautiful.
Instead, the tiny whoopie pies baked to look like tiny muffins, I had to cut the tops off to make them look right, and I got frustrated and filled them with some leftover frosting instead. Not quite what I had in my head…
But after all that, its kind of hard to mess up a cookie/frosting sandwich. Tasty mistakes.
dessert time: chocolate pecan pie bars
Posted: November 15, 2012 Filed under: Girl Talk | Tags: bake, chocolate, coconut, cook, cookie, dessert, Food, pecan, pecan pie bars, recipe, Thanksgiving Leave a comment »I got the baking itch the other day. I saw these german chocolate pecan pie bars on pinterest. I thought: I like german chocolate cake. I almost like pecan pie. I like desserts cut in bars. Might as well give them a try.
1. I have never toasted pecans before. Yay me. 2. Is that enough butter?
These bars are super rich. Yummy, but they will definitely kill you. I cut mine into tiny pieces, because I don’t want all my friends to get fat.
rolo cookies
Posted: October 9, 2012 Filed under: Girl Talk | Tags: bake, chocolate, cookie, dessert, Food, recipe, rolo Leave a comment »I have had these Rolo cookies in my cookie queue for a while now. They actually require me remembering to buy Rolos at the store, so they had to be patient. In the middle of making these cookies, my guy brought me some flowers, because he is just that kind of boy.
In exchange for the flowers, I gave the guy one of the chewy, chocolaty cookies. Ok, maybe he got two cookies because the flowers were oh-so pretty.
